moving from the visionary's imagination into view that all of us may learn to see further

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Contributors to Peaceful Co-Creating

**All of the work (and believe me, it is work) presented here is the property of the individual artists. All of their rights are reserved. So, no lifting without permission. Contact information can probably be found on the contributors' pages. If not, check with me to contact anyone whose work you wish to use:libramoon42@mindspring.com

Jan Hersh

Jan Hersh gets paid to sing and play with young children as a music specialist. She has dabbled in the fine arts since childhood under the influence of Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, and Thaleia.She collects musical instruments and song story books.You can find her photos, art work, poetry, and scribbles on the Gather site - www.terramere.gather.com

In "Cosmic Lace" I draw a face on the mystery of my place on earth in space.

Joshua Nisley

This piece was done in oil paint on canvas, and the frame was done in acrylic.

ARTIST'S PURPOSEOil on canvas2009

This piece shows the intended goals of the visionary artist. Each colored dot on the paintbrush represents a chakra point. The Caduceus/ Kundalini energy spirals in the double helix up through the various levels of consciousness passing through each energy point as it moves. One snake the yin, one the yang. One snake the literal, one the figurative; one the light, one the shadow, etc...At the point above the final chakra is the head of the brush (the part which actually makes contact with the painting) which is shown here as the all encompassing eye of universal creativity. Behind the eye are subtle spectral light waves. The prismatic light waves illustrate diverse yet united waves of new knowledge and inspiration that find their way back into society and consciousness through the manifestation of the artwork itself. Having processed the new inspiration, right and left brain/ masculine and feminine return the energy via the pineal gland/ third eye to the very base of the energy system and the cycle continues, thus aiding in the evolution of art mind and consciousness. On the four corners of the frame I have painted symbols representing Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit.

Joshua Nisley is an artist and musician currently living in Phoenix AZ. His visual art has always portrayed a hint of the divine; but it was not until the last few years that he really began to merge art and God in a new way. In this piece "Artist's Purpose" he conveys his personal ambitions for art. You can find out more about Joshua by visiting his websites:

I've been writing poetry, this time around, since 1996 and responding to, or confluencing with art since 2003.A work of art will knock at the door of my perception, announce, "Here I am" and proceed to tell me, "I want you to tell a story."It may ask me to tell what I see or to use my imagination; sometimes it tells me to fantasize; other times it asks that I recall memories. Once in a while it demands I tell others what it directly tells me. I never know what it wanted, until the piece is written and I read the words I've put on paper.

Brief bio:

I'm of Canadian-American descent, a Brooklynite, currently living with 2 dogs, surrounded by books and music, single but looking. Eccentric, of course. I've taught on the college level for years, on the Jr. high school level for many more. I spent a number of years as a truck driver and have been a cartographer, for a few others.

Usually I get an idea for a painting and then photograph some reference material. This one, "On the Seventh Day," happened the other way around. I had taken a photo of Diana, a very striking and exotic woman, and the image was quietly powerful! I wanted to paint her in that way. The photograph I used as reference for this painting, as well as many other photographs and paintings, can be seen on my website: http://www.randylagana.com/.

"I'm a mystic individualist, who is a psychic thinker; a Nature-itarian anda wannabe writer/poet, who obscurely and artistically expresses throughwords of thought, intelligently progressive and transitionally perceptiveinsights. Apparently all this is directly related to the effect of MyAbnormalities' Normality upon me, with its empathic sensitivity." Read more about me athttp://www.keithalanhamilton.com/

In the order of appearance here: the first one (spiral tree) is oil painting, the second one (rainbow earth child) is mixed media, the third one (flower) is oil painting and the fourth one (reflectomatrix) is a composite of four oil paintings.

Lifelong artist, Jude Cowell, currently works primarily in oil and watercolor pencil on paper. This Georgia native's drawings may be viewed online at Cosmic Persona Designs Art Gallery, and at Dreamyfish Art, where postcards and limited edition prints are available upon request. Cosmic Persona Designs is a collection of archetypal feminine images, cosmic-visionary art (some from an earlier series, Children's World), children's art, and more. An astrological influence is apparent, for Jude has been a serious astrology novice for 10 years, and is writer and publisher of the Political Astrology blog, Stars Over Washington. Dreamyfish Art is a gallery of Saturn's realism--botanically-drawn tropical fish portraits--blended with Neptune's watery, illusory qualities--a combination which neatly describes the artist's natal Sun Capricorn-Moon Pisces personality. Fish dream, too, and here you may have a sneak peek into their most favorite and secret dream locations undersea at Dreamyfish Art. Several moons ago, Jude was an art student at Atlanta School of Art (now College of Art) on Peachtree Street, and even now you may detect a Fashion Illustration, Layout, and Design influence in her work, especially in the Cosmic Persona Designs collection. You never know what might show up at Cosmic Persona, but you are cordially invited to stop by when you can...and remember that fish dream, too!For queries, to offer feedback, or for ordering details, email artist at:judecowell@gmail.comordreamyfishart@earthlink.net

Hannah Chalut is a contemporary dancer/choreographer, a polarity therapist, and an emerging scholar. "Movement Toward Ineffable" is about the process of co-creating self with spirit, and stems from my recent work with the heart opening practices of whirling dervishes and meditation.

Ciaran Shaman

is inspired by Nature, history, esoteric knowledge, and an awareness of a very different world to the one we live in day-to-day. I see the exquisite beauty inherent in all natural things; and portray this in my work by emulating Nature's flowing lines and fractal geometry - often combining these with a vivid explosion of colour. My aim is to create a sense of harmony and peace in the mind of the viewer, as well as to perhaps make people ask fundamental questions about the world we see around us.Websites: http://www.ciaranshaman.co.uk/http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81158977765

This story actually was first published in an obscure children’s magazine in 1976, under the title, "Mark of the Red Man." Every year, around September 11, I rework this tiny jewel to describe in a few paragraphs shamanic healing.

No single event since the assassination of JFK in 1963 has so profoundly hurt my heart as the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. I was in the middle of a meeting in Copenhagen, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, when someone interrupted our work, and we turned on the office TV just as the second tower was hit...

Renata Ratajczyk

is photographer and digital artist specializing in creative, inspirational fantasy photo-illustration and fine art portraiture. Her background in Cultural Anthropology (Master’s degree), as well as deep interest in spirituality and mythology, bring valuable insights and specific style to her art.

Many of Renata’s artworks and photographs were internationally published (books, magazines, music CD covers, greeting cards, calendars, advertising) and exhibited. To see Renata’s Bio with a list of shows, award and work reviews, please follow this link at: http://www.lightvisionart.com/pages/Artist%20Bio.html

Besides selling her work as stock art for a variety of publications, Renata also makes several of her images available as fine art prints, posters, greeting cards and other products sold directly from her website and two Internet stores.

To see and shop for a variety of gifts with Renata’s artwork, please visit her:

Clyde is a writer, artist, and photographer who has been seriously involved in spiritual self-improvement and metaphysics since 1963. His art and photography have been published in Ascent Aspirations, Cella’s Round Trip, Cezanne’s Carrot, Eclecticism, Fickle Muses, and Sacramento Poetry, Art, and Music.

His literary works have been published in Hoi Polloi, Sacramento Poetry, Art, and Music, Bitterroot International Poetry Journal, and American Review Lifestyle Journal.

By day, Andea Grenadier is a development specialist and editor for American Councils for International Education, an NGO based in Washington, D.C. At most other times, she is thinking, writing, and reading. She has been writing professionally in the field of communications since 1979 for organizations including the Public Broadcasting Service, the Association of Public Television Stations, and public radio’s Development Exchange. She began writing poems four years ago, after completing her first (and still unpublished) novel, The Journal of My Plague Year, which was listed among the semifinalists in the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel in 2006. Three of her poems are scheduled for publication in the upcoming edition of the annual journal Pennsylvania English; and she posts most of her work at http://agrenadier.gather.com/. She is a proud member of the Presimulationist group of artists, and is working on her first chapbook.

Adan Del Bosque

I hope you enjoy my visionary art.

Sandeep Chandran

"Even though I have always drawn, my true path of art is one that has paralleled my entheogenic journeys. Ever since my first true immersion into the visionary realms which are opened through the entheogens, I have felt like a conduit for that creative energy to pour out. The series of artwork which currently constitutes my project “Visionary Temple" (www.visionarytemple.com) is the culmination of that creative energy, and the dawning of what I am hoping is my journey in visionary art."my website: http://www.visionarytemple.com/my e-mail contact: Deepsun80@yahoo.com

William C. Burns, Jr.

Bill is a level 11 metamystic metaphysician. Previously a guardian class dragon, he has been reconfigured as a hunter class explorer and has been equipped to chart the climes and skylines of the Outer Zones.Bill is currently looking for a muse to whom he would offer all manner of written adoration.

Quixotic as ever

may you learn from every conflictand may all your transitions be upward . . .

Laurie Corzett/libramoon

seeking outlet for those crazy thoughtstreams, is always moving into new (or resurrected) projects, including Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine ; Seers and Seekers Yahoo Group; The Healing Dance Network Yahoo Group; Visionary Arts and Minds Tribe; anthologies of her writings; an experimental metafiction, working title: Something Sacredhttp://caelastory.blogspot.com/; a (envisioned as) graphic novel (anyone want to do the graphics?), Acts of Desolation:http://www.gather.com/aod; as well as her Utopian Flash Fiction Project -- series of flash fiction pieces around a federation of diverse villages each working out their methods of community life -- little dramatic impacts illustrating creative solutions to social problems:http://tribes.tribe.net/uff.